The way we eat has changed more in 50 years than in the last 10,000. An American supermarket offers an average of 47,000 products, products for which seasons are non-existent since you can find everything, all year round. Fruits and vegetables are harvested or picked on the other side of the world and then imported. The green tomatoes are then ripened with ethylene. They look like tomatoes but have none of the flavor.

A 10 year old child who eats "normally", i.e. in the school canteen and at home with food bought in supermarkets, absorbs no less than 128 chemical residues every day. Breakfast, snack, lunch, afternoon snack and dinner, all of which are in accordance with official recommendations: 5 fresh fruits and vegetables, 3 dairy products and 1 ½ liters of water per day, seem to constitute a balanced diet.

However, when we analyze the content more closely, the results are disturbing since among the ingested molecules, we detect 36 pesticides, 5 carcinogens, 42 molecules suspected of being carcinogenic and 37 hormone disruptors. For example, wholemeal bread contains 2 carcinogenic pesticides identical to those contained in the traditional baguette of white bread or in sandwich bread, 1 minced steak eaten in the canteen contains 1 dioxin and 7 PCBs, these chemical residues responsible for infertility, growth disorders and probably carcinogenic. In the fish section, a piece of salmon alone contains 7 dioxins, 12 PCBs and a trace of heavy metals. As for fruits and vegetables, lettuce and tomatoes contain 2 pesticides each, peaches contain 4 and imported apples contain 6. According to the official associations "responsible" for OUR health, these doses are not dangerous because they remain below the legal limits.

However, it is questionable how much damage these substances do to the average of 200 toxic chemicals found in the umbilical cord at birth when taken daily and repeatedly over a lifetime.

Many scientists wonder whether the accumulation of these many toxins, coupled with other deleterious factors specific to our era, might not explain the increase in the rates of cancer, diabetes and other neurodegenerative diseases in children and among increasingly young populations.

It is interesting to know that studies show that the consumption of organic products by children still reduces the amount of absorption of these toxic substances by 50%.

It is high time to reclaim our power as responsible citizens as well as our freedom of choice and our right to information because at the end of the chain, it is the consumers and more particularly the children who pay the bill (in health problems) of all these financial manipulations and other big money deals for the benefit of the most powerful people who control and dominate the agri-food market.